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First Ever TAW User Poll*

The Kings of Assyria were a group of very bad men. Not “Shaft” bad - just really, truly bad. But they also had some pretty crazy-cool names. In this first-ever TAW user’s poll, I wanted to give you, the listener, the chance to lord over all of the rulers in Assyrian history (Old, Middle and Neo) and choose which one had the baddest (yes, this time, “Shaft” baddest) name of all time!**

“To the tumultuous throng which crowded under these
porticoes the solitude of death has succeeded.The silence of the tomb is substituted for the hum of polite places.” –
Count C.F.C deVolney, The Ruins, or
Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires “The elevation of
Odaenathus and Zenobia appeared to reflect new splendor on their country, and
Palmyra, for a while, stood forth the rival of Rome; but the competition was
fatal, and ages of prosperity were sacrificed to a moment of glory.” – Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire “When the sand seems to disappear, not beneath the verdure
of an oasis but beneath an accumulation of marble and worked stones, silence
falls among the travelers…it is then that a man, even the least civilized,
feels himself to be small and, despite himself, meditates on the presence of
that mighty ru…

Synopsis: Seleucus I Nicator forges the Seleucid Empire, and
his descendants spend the next century struggling to preserve his legacy.

“In Asia, after the defeat of Demetrius at Gaza in Syria,
Seleucus, receiving from Ptolemy no more than eight hundred foot soldiers and
about two hundred horse, set out for Babylon.” – Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History, Book XIX